Saundaryalahari
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few Sanskrit texts have captured the devotional imagination of India as profoundly as Saundaryalahari — the Wave of Beauty — a celebrated hymn of one hundred verses attributed to the great philosopher-saint Adi Shankaracharya, here presented in an authoritative edition by V.K. Subramanian. The text is a sublime outpouring of devotion to the goddess Tripura Sundari (Parvati), the consort of Shiva, and chronicles her divine beauty, cosmic power, and grace through richly layered Sanskrit verse that fuses aesthetic rapture with Tantric and Shaktist theology. Each verse is a meditation in itself, weaving together cosmology, ritual, and lyric poetry into a unified vision of the sacred feminine as the animating force of the universe. Subramanian's scholarly apparatus — offering precise transliteration, faithful translation, and illuminating commentary — makes this ancient masterpiece accessible to both the devotee and the serious student of Indian philosophy and Sanskrit literature. The work stands at a rare confluence of aesthetics, metaphysics, and bhakti, presenting the goddess not merely as an object of worship but as the very principle of consciousness itself. For anyone drawn to the depths of Hindu sacred poetry and Tantric thought, this edition raises a question as old as the text itself: can beauty, truly beheld, become a path to liberation?
Author: V.K. Subramanian
Format: Hardback
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few Sanskrit texts have captured the devotional imagination of India as profoundly as Saundaryalahari — the Wave of Beauty — a celebrated hymn of one hundred verses attributed to the great philosopher-saint Adi Shankaracharya, here presented in an authoritative edition by V.K. Subramanian. The text is a sublime outpouring of devotion to the goddess Tripura Sundari (Parvati), the consort of Shiva, and chronicles her divine beauty, cosmic power, and grace through richly layered Sanskrit verse that fuses aesthetic rapture with Tantric and Shaktist theology. Each verse is a meditation in itself, weaving together cosmology, ritual, and lyric poetry into a unified vision of the sacred feminine as the animating force of the universe. Subramanian's scholarly apparatus — offering precise transliteration, faithful translation, and illuminating commentary — makes this ancient masterpiece accessible to both the devotee and the serious student of Indian philosophy and Sanskrit literature. The work stands at a rare confluence of aesthetics, metaphysics, and bhakti, presenting the goddess not merely as an object of worship but as the very principle of consciousness itself. For anyone drawn to the depths of Hindu sacred poetry and Tantric thought, this edition raises a question as old as the text itself: can beauty, truly beheld, become a path to liberation?